I recently had a bad UPS lead to a sudden crash of several machines. One of them (running FreeBSD) didn't come back up until I replaced the power supply, but it's still not fully back. Both the BIOS ...

I am currently setting up a FreeBSD mail server with DBMAIL and Postfix.
I have forwarded port 25,110 and 587 to this server. When I try to log in using pop3 on port 110 my mail program does not find ...

My FreeBSD 10.0 machine was installed by the hosting company and they left out several distributions. Specifically: src/src world/doc world/games world/lib32
How best to add those back into the mix ...

I'm trying to setup sendmail on FreeBSD to relay (outbound) through an Exchange server on the MSA port via SMTP-AUTH. The Exchange server is already successfully relaying for Java applications that ...

I am trying to install mail/pine-pgp-filters on my FreeBSD box, but I am running into a problem. I first tried to install it without having GPG installed, and it listed security/gpg1 as a dependency. ...

I am new to BSD and I am experimenting with getting an old(ish) Packard Bell desktop machine out of mothballs. The basic installation of FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE for amd64 seems to have gone fine, but I ...

I tested freeBSD in a virtual machine on my Linux pc, and I kinda like it. I noticed that the file structure is similar to that of Linux, and many Linux commands will also work on freeBSD. My question ...

Whats the best way to analyse problems on an freenas raid file server?
I have troubles with my freenas 9.2.1. It crashed today. Its running a fileserver on zfs jbod raid 2. I'm not sure what exactly ...

I've installed FreeBSD 10.1 on a system which has two ZFS pools, and which boots from an other hard disk, which contains only the bootloader. The main pool disks are connected to SATA ports on a PCI-E ...

I am interested in creating a master user whose default program settings are inherited by later users, like a template user. I know this used to be done in multiple-user Unix terminal settings such ...

While accessing a drive with high error rates (as, for example, here for opensuse) in FreeBSD, the system eventually disconnects the drive and it disappears from /dev. This makes it impossible to run ...

I have a FreeBSD 10.0 system, and a couple of days ago, I upgraded my python27 port from Python 2.7.8 to Python 2.7.9, which enabled SSL verification by default. Unsurprisingly, it broke my existing ...

Is there any proper way to build a minimal kernel for FreeBSD? The FreeBSD Handbook has the lack of information about this. By default /boot/kernel directory has the pretty big size - around 450MB. I ...

I currently have two servers both have the exact same hardware, disks, etc.
One server (server1) is going to be the "main" server. It's basically a server with raidz2 that has SMB shares on it that ...

Is there a utility software (or an easy method to do it from shell script) to display a serial port's status — i. e. blinking “RXD”, “TXD”, “DCD”, “DTR”, “DSR”, “RTS”, “CTS”? Particularly, I need to ...

I'm on FreeBSD, using a wide xterm with, say, 132 characters per line.
When running
$ man man
the manual page is formatted to fit an 80 character per line terminal width.
Is there a way to make the ...

How to force FreeBSD to assign default router when acquiring IP in DHCP mode?
My machines are FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE or RELEASE
The NIC (respectively em0 or re0) is set to get a dynamic IP address. ...

So I have recently installed FreeBSD 10.1 (now UEFI native!) on my Mid-2012 MacBook Pro. The install went fine, except for one problem: my wireless card wasn't recognised. I looked into bwi and bwn as ...

I'm trying to "bridge" a ricoh laser printer to the rest of my network with a freebsd box, I have some other services running on there, such as mediatomb and have been using it as a file/media server. ...